Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb

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From: Dave Jones
Date: Monday, April 23, 2007 - 9:18 am

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:55:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:30 -0400
 > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > If the chip locks up, we get into a long polling loop,
 > > where the softlockup detector kicks in.
 > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=151878
 > > for an example.
 > 
 > Surely in this situation the softlockup report and trap out is precisely
 > what should be occurring.

We can't do anything useful with the trace.  It already prints out
info that the hardware locked up.

	Dave

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Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb, Dave Jones, (Mon Apr 23, 8:36 am)
Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb, Alan Cox, (Mon Apr 23, 8:55 am)
Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 23, 9:05 am)
Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb, Dave Jones, (Mon Apr 23, 9:18 am)
Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 23, 4:06 pm)